The Strong Dress by Meg Vertigan
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is 1977 and Kate is a seventeen-year-old HSC student from Sydney’s North Shore. She has dreams of becoming the next Ita Buttrose and editing Cleo. Yet while the 1970’s was the time of free love and peace this movement has not yet hit Kate’s suburban home in Beecroft. Kate’s carefree behaviour leads h ...Show more
The Woman Inside by M. T. Edvardsson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Bill, a widowed single dad, has urgent bills to pay when he rents out a room in his apartment to Karla. Karla left home to study law and, in need of cash, begins working as a cleaner for a doctor and his wife. But inside their palatial house it's clear that something is wrong with the wife who never lea ...Show more
Whale at the End of the World by John Ironmonger
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Previously published as NOT FORGETTING THE WHALE THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'A gentle and uplifting tale of warding off apocalypse in a remote corner of Cornwall . . . charming' Financial TimesFor fans of ELEANOR OLIPHANT, THE ROSIE PROJECT & THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY.It all began with ...Show more
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark and tender, full of pathos, fury and wit, Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason is a dazzling, distinctive novel from a boldly talented writer. For fans of Sally Rooney, Taffy Brodesser-Akner and Fleabag. This novel is about a woman called Martha. She knows there is something wro ...Show more
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
$19.98 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she's accepted an invitation from a mentor in America that allows her ...Show more
The Tea Ladies of St Jude's Hospital by Joanna Nell
$29.99 AUD
$32.99 (9% off)
Category: Fiction
The heartwarming and hilarious new novel by the author of cherished bestsellers, The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village and The Great Escape from Woodlands Nursing Home The Marjorie Marshall Memorial Cafeteria has been serving refreshments and raising money at the hospital for over fifty year ...Show more
Again, Rachel by Marian Keyes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The international No.1 bestselling author writes her first sequel starring her most beloved character - form an orderly line! Back in the long ago nineties, Rachel Walsh was a mess. But a spell in rehab transformed everything. Life became very good, very quickly. These days, Rachel has love, family, a g ...Show more
Drivers Seat by Muriel Spark
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything behind her, transforms herself into a laughing, garishly-dressed temptress and flies abroad on the holiday of a lifetime. But her search for adventure, sex and the obsessional exper ...Show more
Five Bush Weddings by Clare Fletcher
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
As a photographer, Stevie's been to enough bush weddings to last a lifetime. When's it going to be all about her? With her ex soon to be married, her mum back on the dating scene, and her best friend threatening to settle down with the Most Boring Man Alive, Stevie is feeling left behind. To top it off, ...Show more
The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
As the Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914, Rafael Pinto is busy crushing herbs and grinding tablets behind the counter at the pharmacy he inherited from his father. It's not quite the life he had expected during his poetry-filled student days in libertine Vienna, but it's ...Show more
The House of Now and Then by Jo Dixon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
You should leave the past in the past ... or should you? A vividly told, jaw-droppingly twisty and wholly engaging story about the consequences of discovering the truth. For readers of Sally Hepworth, Nicola Moriarty and Adele Parks. Olivia is hiding from vicious media and online scrutiny in a remote Ta ...Show more
Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Joe Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. He reads his comics, collects birds' eggs and treasures his marbles, particularly his prized dobbers. When Treacle Walker appears off the Cheshire moor one day – a wanderer, a healer – an unlikely friendship is forged and the young boy is introduced to ...Show more